EN 1993: Overview of Steel Bridge Design to EN 1993

The objective of this paper is to give an overview to the use of EN 1993 for bridge design since there are many more parts which need to be used than there were in BS 5400, where all the rules necessary for steel bridge design were contained in BS 5400 Part 3. This paper identifies the parts of EN 1993 required to design a typical steel bridge (which in the UK is most usually of steel-concrete composite construction and hence reference is also made to EN 1994) and highlights areas of difference to practice in BS 5400.